Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by Nextgrid on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:35PM
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> Respecting privacy.
Firefox in its default configuration does nothing about privacy because just the IP address and user-agent are unique enough to track you. It may actually make it even worse because Firefox' marketshare is so small that the user-agent sticks out like a sore thumb.
You need uBlock Origin to have any chance at privacy.
Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by autoexec on Monday September 26, 2022 @10:12PM
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> Respecting privacy.
Firefox these days includes a number of features which threaten user's privacy that must be disabled. Their biggest sins I think were forcing Pocket onto people by default, their new tab page, searching from the address bar, and prefetch.
Respecting privacy.
I urge non-technical people to switch to Firefox constantly. People understand, often cannot be bothered.
Times change and more and more people are realising that in the twenty first century we need to protect ourselves not so much government oppression as corporate dominance and surveillance. So they bother
Part of that is using Firefox. In my experience, people get it. Be they computer programmers or plumbers.